Frederick leiss



Patented Jan. 29, 1889.

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT E'EicE.

FREDERICK LEISS, OF NEV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE DAY, OF SAME PLACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 397 ,009, dated January 29, 1889.

Application med .Tune 1,1888. serialNo. 275,700. (Nomodel.)

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, FREDERICK LEIss, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of N ew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Torches, of which the following' is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying' drawings.

The object of my invention is to provide a torch suitable for use in campaign and other processions, and for other purposes, of such construction that it may be used as a receptacle for lire-works and as a holder for the same while they are being burned. To this end I construct a metallic receptacle suitable to hold a quantity of oil and provide the same with a wick to reach into the oil and to be lighted at the top. The wick, which is preterably tubular, but which may be flat or solid, is adjacent to the receptacle or holder for the fire-works, so that a sliding handle, with which the torch is provided and which extends into the iire-works holder, may be pushed up into said holder to lift the lire-works up to the lighted top ot the wick, where they will be ignited.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l. is a vertical section of a torch embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view with the handle raised to bring a Roman candle in the tire-works holder or receptacle into position to be ignited. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of a modication.

The torch is preferably made of tin or other similar sheet metal, and is of proper shape to form a receptacle, a, for oil between the inner and outer walls of the said receptacle. The forni of my torch herein illustrated is intended to have a tubular wick, l), held between an inner tube, c, which constitutes the tire-works holder B, and an outer or wickholding tube, d, the latter being verticallyT adjustable, so as to govern the amount of pro jecting wick at the top exposed for burning. The said tube d may be frictionally retained in place by being pressed against by the lower end of the iiaring protector e, which latter may be of any suitable size to catch sparks or cinders falling from the fire-works or the burning wick.

The oil-receptacle L is closed at its top by the wick l) and an inclined wall, j', below the protector e. A is the stock or handle of the torch, titti ng somewhat snugly in thc lower tubular end, g, of the torch, but adapted to slide vertically therein. rlhe said handle A is provided with two or more holes, h, through which may be inserted a pin, t, to retain the torch in proper position on the handle.

To secure a proper supply of air to the in side oi' the burning wick, the metallic portion ol' the torch is provided below the oilreceptacle with one or more air-holes, j, the part ot' the torch in which said hole or holes are formed being of larger diameter internally than the handle, so that when the latter is raised, as in Fig. 2, the air-passage will not be closed.

Oil may be supplied to the oil-receptacle c by removing the wick b and the wick-holding tube d; or the torch may, it desired, be provided with an ordinary screw-capped nipple, 7:, Fig. 2, for greater convenience in filling.

The fire-works receptacle or holder may be supplied with Roman candles, colored lights, rockets, or other fireworks, which may be carried in the said holder until it is desired to ignite them. In Fig. l a Roman candle is represented as being thus safely .lodged in the fire-works holder, the handle being down far enough so that the upper end of the candle is at a sate distance below the top or end ot' the wick to be lighted.

In Fig. 2 the handle is represented as being raised far enough to bring the top of the candle up to the lighted end of the wick to ignite the said candle, the latter being con veniently held by the torch while burning or exploding. Colored lights, common crackers, limver-pots, rockets, and other tire-works may be similarly carried in the lire-works receptacle and ignited when desired by pushing the handle upward.

It will of course be understood that the shape, proportions, and details of construction of my improved torch may be varied considerably without departing from the essential features of my invention.

In the modification shown in Fig. 3 the vertically-adjustable tube d is omitted, and the vand desire to secure by Letters Patentwick is held between a tube, d', soldered to the lower or inclined part, f, of the flaring' protector e, and the inner tube, c. As one wick will in practice last as long` as the torch, the Wick may be placed in position around the tube c before the top piece, e f, is soldered onto the outer wall or tube, a. The oil-inlet nipple or nozzle 7s (shown in Fig. 3) is closed by a cork or plug', k; To raise the Wick, it may be picked or pulled up by any pointed instrument, as is common with cheap torches.

Having thus described my invention, I claim l. A torch having an oil-receptacle anda Wick, and being also provided with a fire-works holder adjacent to said wick, combined with a sliding handle havingl transverse holes and adapted to be pushed upward in said holder to raise the fire-works to the top of the wick to be ignited, and a pin foi-securing said handle in different positions, substantially as set forth.

`2. The combination, with a hollow torcln the center of which constitutes a fire-works holder which is surrounded with an oil-receptacl'e, of a circular wick around said lire-works 1 upward into said hre-works holder, anda pin for securing said handle in different posit-ions, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, with the metallic torchbody having the oil-receptacle a, the circular wick ZJ, the inner tube, c, the wick-holding Vtube CZ, the hanged protector e, and one or moreair-inlet holes, 7L, of the sliding or vertically-adjustable handle A, iitting the lower Vmetallic part or tube of the said torch, but that part of the said tube in which said airinlet holes are formed being of greater dialneter internally than said handle, substantially asset forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence'of two witnesses. l v

FREDERICK LEISS.

XVitnesses:

R. B. ALLisON, H. E2 LANE.' 

